This is part three of my review of Gloria Feldt’s The War on Choice. Yesterday I talked about her analysis of sex education legislation. And on Tuesday I looked at “The State of the Uterus.” In “Exporting Extremism,” Feldt documents the way right wing ideology permeated American foreign policy during the Bush era. The chapter [...]
A new report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) shows that development assistance for family planning services in developing nations is a pretty remarkable investment. According to the study, donor nations can see a 4-fold return on their investment if they support family planning services. For 2007, donor countries should have contributed $3 billion [...]
Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor may be the first Latina to be nominated to the high court, but she’s certainly not the first Catholic. Five other justices are Catholic – Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice John Roberts. In the history of the Supreme Court there have been a total [...]
